OFTEN FANGED LIGHT is a collection of poems reflecting the joys and horrors of the natural world; it memorializes lives early ruined and lives lost, excoriates social and environmental injustices, and more than hints at the poet's complicity in this "dome of many-colour'd glass." From the personal standpoint, Often Fanged Light delineates the poet's journey from the heartland of the industrial Midwest to a small town on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, her divorce from an engaged working life to one of contemplation, devotion to the arts, and advocacy.